The photograph shows seven members of the expedition trekking upwards on the north face of Mount Everest. It was taken by Noel Odell, the expedition's photographer, who was the last person to see ...

AT a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on November 6, Mr. Hugh Ruttledge described the Mount Everest Expedition of 1933, of which he was leader. The party left for the 350-mile march ...

a veteran of six expeditions climbing Mount Everest, died at his home in Nantes, France, when he was trying to replace a light bulb and fell from the ladder, striking his head. The earliest ...

Last week’s announcement that a boot and partial remains believed to belong to the British explorer Sandy Irvine had been found on Mount Everest by a National Geographic documentary crew supercharged ...

The intense physiological difficulties attending the attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, were described to members of the Royal Geographical Society by Major ...

On this day in 1886, the German-Swiss mountaineer Gunter Oskar Dyhrenfurth was born. We detail his astonishing successes in ...

The Irvine discovery is remarkably the second century-old mystery Chin has been involved with this year. The other is the ...

Influencers with minimal climbing experience are posing as heroes on 8,000-meter peaks, turning summit selfies into cash and earning tens of thousands of dollars per shot.

Several expeditions have set off on their final ... and acclimatization climb for those seeking to later attempt Mt. Everest or Lhotse. The typical ascent and descent on Ama Dablam takes ...

Rolex celebrates our planet’s poles, mountains and forests through its commitment to supporting the invaluable work of ...

A group of 18 students and faculty of SRM university, led by Sidharth Shankar Tripathy, Director of Entrepreneurship and ...